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A long-distance dust storm rose from the Gobi Desert in early March 2023. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of line of moving dust on March 10.

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English: A long-distance dust storm rose from the Gobi Desert in early March 2023. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of line of moving dust on March 10.

The light tan dust stretched more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from west to east and rose from the arid desert regions near the border of Mongolia (north) and northern China (south). The plumes thin toward their southern edge, indicating that they are being carried by northerly winds.

The Gobi Desert has a variety of landscapes, ranging from sand and bare rock to grassy steppe. It is one of the Earth’s most abundant sources of dust. Dust storms can be large, like this one, or small and may appear at any time of the year, but occur most frequently in March and April.
Date Taken on 10 March 2023
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This image or video was catalogued by Goddard Space Flight Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: 2023-03-11.

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